Using the potential of Google’s voice assistance and artificial intelligence, your assistant can read what appears on the phone screen. And now integrates direct access to said reading directly on the screen of the Google Assistant: It is already present in Pixel phones updated to Android 12.
Who knows all the functions that Google Assistant is useful for? They are almost innumerable, it is impossible to know them all. What if changing the phone settings, driving from one point to another thanks to the driving mode, told jokes, the attendant can turn off the dining room lamp, turn on the home security camera
Google Assistant reads web pages to you
The Google Assistant voice transcription or TTS system can interpret what appears published on browser web pages in order to read it. It is convenient for long texts, it also facilitates Internet access for all people with visual impairment. The new Google Assistant button makes it even easier.
It is not too difficult for the assistant to read the texts because just invoke Google Assistant and ask for it
The new “Read” shortcut, which appears next to the Google Lens shortcut, does exactly what it says: after tapping on it, Google’s TTS system analyzes text and transcribes it into voice for reading. The reading is of high quality, the diction is perfect, and Assistant offers word markup to indicate where in the text it is going.
The virtual assistant’s reading and diction are perfect: listening to a web page read on the phone is almost equivalent to being read by a person
In addition to being read, this Assistant function allows:
- Access any part of the text using the reading bar.
- The interface includes play / pause, forward and reverse buttons.
- You can choose the playback speed.
The button only appears on Android 12 (currently on Pixels), but reading web pages can be used in the rest of Android. In case the button does not appear, you just need to open Google Assistant and order it to “Read page”.
Via | Android Police
